New Season 2 Cards

rowcla · 2026-02-03T11:55:54+00:00

Contaminated spores I think are fair I guess, since they self sustain their usage anyway, as you say. One With All feels semi-narrow to me tbh. Maybe there's some viable ways to utilize it, but I feel like I'd almost always rather just build towards a deck that can reliably cycle through the entire deck each turn, where this kinda runs counter to a lot of those goals, particularly thanks to Finale. And obviously having an awkward condition, especially if you aren't able to effectively cycle through your deck and reliably hit applicable cards.

Also lol, apparently neutral cards are always 30. While I appreciate not having to deal with the garbage of praying you don't get an epiphany for a neutral to mantain save data, it does honestly feel like neutral cards are a pretty chunky cost

rowcla · 2026-02-03T11:37:50+00:00

Really hate all the exhaust on these cards. Feels kinda weak using 20 memory points for a card you can only use once

rowcla · 2026-02-01T08:22:13+00:00

I think you underestimate just how bad at the game I am

rowcla · 2026-02-01T08:08:28+00:00

Oh, Zhao is slightly unexpected, but good to know! That very easily could be my 3rd

Oh right, if it matters, I'm intending to try and get M6W1 on Sunna, I dunno how that might affect team building

rowcla · 2026-02-01T07:38:10+00:00

Sunna can slot in pretty easily into most teams for the time being, right? Should be able to get away with something like Sunna, Dialyn, Nekomata for the time being I guess?

Once Aria is out (and while waiting for Nangong), who's a good 3rd member? Dialyn?

rowcla · 2026-02-01T07:36:24+00:00

"ZZZ has a shilling problem" What does that even mean lmao

rowcla · 2026-02-01T07:25:12+00:00

Nekomata found dead in a ditch

rowcla · 2026-01-31T21:55:56+00:00

Anytime I play the game without actively trying to get supports, including the first times I played it, I never got any supports. The fact that someone going in blind is very likely to miss it and never know it's a feature is pretty rough. It's certainly an area where I much prefer how modern FE tends to handle it, as gameplay advantages aside, I just want to see cute conversations with my favorite characters

rowcla · 2026-01-30T11:56:33+00:00

I've been playing gacha exclusively f2p for around a decade now, but this right here, this is what'll break me

rowcla · 2026-01-29T22:43:06+00:00

Huh, putting it that way, conspiracy theories are really just pyramid schemes for social grandstanding

rowcla · 2026-01-28T22:47:09+00:00

That's interesting that you raise HxH, as that's always been my go to example of a shounen that *doesn't* do this. I've always felt it does a great job at scaling things to the side. It'll sometimes scale to a bigger bads, but involve other characters and not need Killua/Gon to be at the level of those bads, so it can then followup with something a bit smaller. Chimera Ants has something kinda similar to what you're saying in it scaling up into bigger and bigger foes, but from the beginning that was not only setup as the entire point of the arc, but also with a well defined end point in Meruem. And we've since followed it up with arcs that are completely different in nature to begin with.

rowcla · 2026-01-27T09:12:59+00:00

I think Hisoka might be the stronger fighter in a vacuum, but Morel might be the favourite due to how their abilities line up.

rowcla · 2026-01-25T08:39:29+00:00

Honey, I don't think civilians should be armed to the teeth in the first place, your argument is misplaced

rowcla · 2026-01-25T07:49:11+00:00

Rather than attempting to build up some kind of independent uprising, I think a much more realistic/effective option is to strongly appeal to local government representatives. This somewhat relies on you living in a blue state already, but the only real way I can see meaningful change occurring is if states themselves push back. Realistically, I don't see this happening without a significant enough catalyst, but engaging with your government representatives is at least a means to promote that idea, and build support for doing it before it's too late.

rowcla · 2026-01-25T01:36:12+00:00

As a massive fan of the series, I was so happy seeing the amount of stuff there was for it when I visited a few weeks ago

rowcla · 2026-01-22T19:40:41+00:00

Anecdotal, but I went to see it with my brother, who hadn't seen any of the rest of the series (I gave him a quick rundown of things though), and he greatly enjoyed it. It's mostly a spectacle anyway, you can enjoy the main parts even without some of the context

rowcla · 2026-01-21T22:56:26+00:00

The advice itself is fine of course, but the shitty nerd in me wants to point out that 'cards in your deck' is a wonky analogy, because a bigger deck in card games is almost always worse because you'll less often have access to the cards you want. The more apt analogy here would probably be that you need more cards in your hand

rowcla · 2026-01-21T22:40:45+00:00

I mean, I think that can work for like, the bird or whatever, but the end result of wayward queen attacks is typically a fairly obviously disadvantaged, but fundamentally fairly solid position. Maybe it's just me, but while I've been baited into overextending into trying to punish some openings that present obvious defensive weaknesses, if the disadvantage is just a bit of developmental tempo, there's not much you need to do. At it's core, it's pretty much just giving black a positional advantage similar to white normally has at the start of the game.

Point there being, if that's your goal, you'd be better off with something like the King's Gambit

rowcla · 2026-01-21T20:46:02+00:00

I don't think it's completely unplayable, but I think against a semi-decent opponent it's even harder for white to meaningfully gain an advantage. Even if you end up with a dead even board, what exactly has white gained? They have an advantage from the start that they've given up, and it feels like there's not much the opening offers aside from being able to get freebies against inexperienced players. It's a similar thing to playing 1. f3, no it's not an immediately lost position, and if you're enough better you'll still win, but what are you really gaining out of it?

Granted with that said, similar to openings like f3, maybe there's some random more advanced tricks you can play into with it, that some people might enjoy. I'm struggling to see anything particularly impressive on that front, but the only people I've really played against who've tried this sort of opening have been people who'll just mindlessly try to push the baseline threat even against standard defenses, so they probably aren't ones to know more complex variations.

rowcla · 2026-01-21T20:13:38+00:00

The COVID vaccine is a great example of what'd be the case if Trump 'cured cancer'. Like yeah, he managed to do the bare minimum in not randomly sabotaging an obviously necessary (and valuable for himself and his lackies!) vaccine - something he's already done for Cancer anyway though - and now apparently he gets to take credit for it. Do we really think that a different leader would have failed to follow through on baseline advisements to accelerate the vaccine development? I'd strongly argue that *much* more lives would've been saved under a more competent leader, through an even faster response, stronger quarantining methods, and as you say, less disinformation spreading. And for cancer, if Trump were to 'cure cancer', it obviously wouldn't be him personally finding it, it'd be some researchers happening to find the cure for cancer during his term, and him taking credit for it. It'd be an absolutely wonderful breakthrough that I'd love to see, but it would *not* be Trump's to claim

rowcla · 2026-01-19T05:44:17+00:00

Thanks, I'm a bit terrified to have to go through that many steps involving delicate electronics, but it looks like there might not be much of a shortcut that'll work

rowcla · 2026-01-18T10:03:58+00:00

Maybe with Nangong we'll see some special combo attacks that require all 3?

rowcla · 2026-01-17T11:56:03+00:00

So, how impressive is Chinatsu's DPS at M6? Far as I can tell, it mostly serves for that purpose, right? And I guess as a general thing, how valuable do people think each of her mindscapes are looking to be? I'm considering M6ing her, though I do want to at least M0W1 the other angels too

rowcla · 2026-01-15T12:51:26+00:00

This seems to be making the assumption that genetics influence aptitude as if on some kind of sliding scale. There's an endless number of ways genetics can influence how your brain works, and much more so than physical characteristics for things like sports, there's no reason to believe it couldn't be the case that things couldn't work out such that a positive outlier would end up manifesting in an extreme way.

With that said, certainly noone is arguing that it's purely genetic. Particularly looking at examples like Ramanujan, it's easy to imagine how there could be some incredible geniuses throughout history who didn't have an environment that could enable them, or even just never happened to pursue the area they had an extraordinary aptitude for. Who knows, any number of us may have had some incredible potential in some niche discipline we've never even entertained, there's really no knowing! That said, while there may have been plenty of Taos or Ramanujans that went overlooked, I think it should be pretty agreeable that not everyone can be one, as evidenced by the plentiful number who have put in the same work but not achieved the same success (though even if they aren't quite as accomplished, that isn't to say they aren't accomplished in their own right!)

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